Thank you all for your thoughtful responses; they are much appreciated. _/\_ I stumbled on an excellent Dhamma talk by Ajahn Brahm today (link to it below) and one quote in particular struck a chord with me: Attachment is born by the illusion of ownership. The talk: http://www.theravada-dhamma.org/b...

I agree that it’s a terrific app for holding one accountable for their consumption-related actions ("That's 846 calories?? Seriously?? Yikes."). When I use it consistently, the weight really does drop off. The key word here is when...

Hi Dhamma friends : I often vacillate between intuitively understanding the concept of becoming and questioning if I actually do. I would love to hear, in your own words, how you personally define becoming. Or, if you'd like to point me in the direction of a definition by a Dhamma teacher you feel e...

i've been interested in this movie but wary as from the trailer i don't see dhamma. can you specify what is dhamma in it? "Whether a tree, a mountain or an animal (or the movie Samsara), it's all Dhamma, everything is Dhamma." — Ajahn Chah (with a slight remix by Sun). :) A potent movie, in my humb...

Also Sunyata, I'm reading a bit about Nada Yoga. This sounds very interesting! I very much enjoy one idea I just read on meditation on the SOUND of the breath... this might be my key in linking this practice to anapanasati if I ever need to get very serious into this instead of sound. I may be a bi...

Sunyata, I might actually have the ability to do this. Before buddhism I was looking a lot into Out of Body experiences, and although never achieving it yet, you hear an extremely strong vibrational sound within yourself moments before leaving the body, and I can actually hear this sound quite ofte...